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As many of you may or may not know, i love all things vintage. In most cases I prefer older better made things to newer poorly made/designed things. One of the consolations of moving home are the amazing thrift stores, second hand stores and moderately priced antique stores that haven't been picked over by hipsters (cause there aren't any!). While i have been here these last 7 months i have been stocking up on the great collectibles. and since i couldn't possibly show you all of them, let me show you what i've gotten this weekend.
And last but not least my slightly used Umbra sneakers. $1.00, perfect for gym shoes.
This week I am learning to quilt. While Mama Hughes and Co. are on holiday I have gone to her sister, "Aunt Lou", to learn how to quilt and help reorganize. Aunt Lou is an amazing quilter with decades of experience, I am very lucky to get this kind of instruction!
So far, I have found the whole process to be very interesting in its approach and its methodology. This craft my be a good one to soothe those OCD moments, in that everything is designed to be very precise and exact. Everything has a template and you use a rotary cutter. All the tools I have encountered are to assist in accuracy.
I've found in garment sewing there is a lot of ambiguity, mostly because fit and style are intended to be variable in the design process. I can't tell you how many times in the process of making a garment it morphs into something different, not that I can't make things look how I intend but that it isn't the nature of the process. At least it's not for me, and I realize that may come from general inexperience, but I'm okay with that.
For my first small project we decided a pillowcase would be good. We also decided that a hexagon would be a good shape for me to start out on since I'm not a super noob who needs to do big squares. Here is it all cut and half way sewn.
I have to tell you about the thing that it is hanging on, it's probably the most useful of all the tools I have encountered. It's called a flannel board, because it is exactly that. The little quilt pieces stick to the fuzzy flannel like nothin! You can move stuff around, play with placement, take a step back and look at it, and you don't have to poke your fabric. It's as easy as pinning a flannel sheet to your wall! (ok, I'm starting to feel like the billy mays of the craft world here!) Pure genius!
More updates as the project progresses!
Here are some beautimus flowers that i found while in Seaside, OR.
Yes I know, what a super lame thing to blog about but, sometimes I need this blog just to make sure I'm not crazy.
I hate overdraft fees. I would rather be declined than pay $33.00. I've asked my financial institution if I could turn off overdraft protection, they said no. I know what your thinking, 'there are many simple solutions to this like watch your account, or keep more money in your checking account, switch banks.' . I do watch my account, but i don't want to check it every morning like i do my e-mail or blog roll, it would just depress me. I usually do keep just enough in my account to cover the bills I have, however I haven't worked in 3 weeks, needless to say I'm as dry as nun's cunt on Sunday. And about switching banks, I'm seriously *this* close.
Matt and I were at a friends house watching a movie after having a lovely dinner with them and seeing their new apartment. It was getting late and my contacts getting dry and, I of course don't carry eye drops. So i go to the bathroom knowing that my friend also wears contacts and would have saline solution in her medicine cabinet.
Now we all know the rules when it comes medicine cabinets at someone else's house, everyone looks but no one touches. This particular friend and i are quite close so i felt like it would be okay if i borrowed some saline solution and that i didn't need to ask.
So i squirted what i thought was solution on my contact and rubbed it around and proceeded to put the contact into my eye. Instantaneously the burning fires of hell were all up in my looking ball, nearly bringing me to my knees, however my shame of breaking this cardinal rule of "ask first" i muffle my sobs. My eye instinctively clams up to protect itself from further harm only it's trapping the infected contact in my socket. I pry my eye open to pull the contact out and I am unsuccessful. i keep trying and end up scratching my eye with my nails in the process only to find out i got it out the first time and it just fell on the counter. i begin trying to rinse and my eye just wont open to get a good splash. I try to clean off my contact with water and I manage to get it back into my eye.
As soon as i can kind of see i grab the bottle of Aosept Brand Satan's Spit and it says 'cleaning solution for soft contact lenses'. It has a picture of a contact lens on the front, one would assume that it was safe to put in your eyes, but no it's like soap for your contacts and contains 3% hydrogen peroxide. bloody lovely. so my eye was all red and bleary and shrunken. that's right shrunken, it was visibly smaller than it was before.
I rejoin the group quietly too ashamed to tell anyone what had happened. We finish the movie and I still manage to drive us home.
Moral of the story: Ask first and your friends will surely let you borrow the things you need. If you don't, may your eyes be burned out by misleading products.
I love this site. you can make little collage, inspiration boards, super easy. and then you get the shopping link to all the items you put in you collage. hawt.
i made these two.
Today was my first work out at Curves. I loved it! i felt amazing afterwords! I felt like the strong, capable, woman i used to be. What i didn't feel, was lost, alone, pain in my lungs and joints, and insurmountable fatigue/boredom. This program was everything i wasn't getting in the past with regular gyms. I'm going to go everyday this week on my free trial. I'm kinda bummed that i can't afford the joining fee right now, but maybe when i get back from California.
this is a Martha Washington Geranium, in a color called "Baroness". We planted it at Mama H's house but this is a fleur i plucked a week ago. i love the colors and the pattern inside.
